S
EAGATE
X8 A
CCELERATOR FOR
W
INDOWS
U
SER
G
UIDE
, R
EV
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7
5.0
Installing X8 Accelerator Driver and Utilities
Installation driver is found on the USB drive shipped with the X8 Accelerator or at
http://www.seagate.com/support/
downloads/
for the supported Operating Systems versions
All of the following installation instructions need to be executed as an Administrator. A reboot of the system is required to
enable certain boot parameter changes therefore an appropriate amount of scheduled downtime will be required for these
operations.
5.1
Installing the Device Driver
N
OTE
Seagate X8 Accelerator drivers for Windows are provided as a standard “MSI” installation package.
Double-click on the file to begin, and follow the prompts.
For Win 7 with SP1, please Right click on the command prompt, “Run as
Administrator” and for Windows Hyper-V 2008 R2 SP1 run the command
msiexec /i “Path to X8 Accelerator.msi” to launch the installer.
